Illinois Looks To Update Medicaid Payments To Hospitals

(Springfield, IL) — Illinois is about to change the way it pays hospitals across the state to take care of the sick, the old and the poor. Both the Illinois House and the Illinois Senate yesterday approved an updated hospital assessment plan. The assessment is essentially a tax on hospitals to help pay for Medicaid. But the plan also changes how hospitals will be paid by updating the state’s Medicaid formula and trying to push dollars to the hospitals where Medicaid patients are actually being treated.

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